On the manufacturing front, Trade and Industry (dti) Minister Rob Davies says that the best way for Africa to forge ahead and develop is by industrialising. Davies reckons it's the key to spur African growth. Still in the area of manufacturing, Volkswagen's engine plant is firing on all cylinders after an order for 12 000 engines came in from China.

IT & Telecommunications

TUNIS: The Tunisian government will sell off stakes once held by a relative of ousted strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in a mobile phone operator and a car dealership, a finance ministry official said on Thursday, 26 July 2012. Read more >>

The forthcoming Innovation Dinner, hosted by ITNews Africa in partnership with MTN and NetApp, scheduled for Tuesday, 31 July 2012, at the Michelangelo Hotel and Towers, Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa, will offer several speakers a credible platform to discuss the direction of the continent in terms of Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. Read more >>

Hardware

The Kaspersky Open Space Security suite of products has seen substantial growth in South Africa as well as into sub-Saharan Africa. It provides world-class anti-malware protection in a single, integrated suite of applications that work seamlessly across all platforms. Every workstation, laptop, file server, mail server, internet gateway or smartphone is fully protected, giving Open Space Security users complete confidence that the network is secure, whether they are working in the office, remotely or at home. Read more >>

Internet

Since its launch in 2001, Bizcommunity has always seen the benefit for our readers of having industry jobs available on the site, as well as the benefit to companies looking for applicants and recruiters and recruitment agencies having a targeted audience pool to search for good quality applicants and CVs. Read more >>

LAS VEGAS, US: Computer security champions on Wednesday, 25 July 2012, were urged to hunt down and eliminate hackers, spies, terrorists and other online evildoers to prevent devastating Internet Age attacks. Read more >>

[Thabiso Mochiko] Vodacom said on Friday it was still in discussions to resolve the impasse with its business partner in its Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) joint venture but stressed that it wants to retain its 51% stake in the entity. Read more >>

[Rick Parry] Large application infrastructure development platform company, Progress Software International, announced at the AIGS Delight@Work Conference held in Limpopo, that they will increasingly focus on enabling the development of mobile business applications due to increasing demand and analyst predictions. Rick Parry examines why mobility should be an essential component of future business strategies. Read more >>

LONDON, UK: With Facebook's inaugural results perceived as being underwhelming, and Facebook looking to mobile to grow revenues, the challenge of how it monetises people's usage of its network over mobile phones continues to be a primary concern for investors. According to leading independent digital marketing agency Greenlight, if a phone is now not part of its plans, Facebook has a mobile problem on its hands. Read more >>